Mikvaos 1 – Para. 4b – Wellspring – Parshas Toldos – RaMBaN – Mikveh Means Hope – Mayim Chaim – SIYUM.
Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Hilkhos Mikvaos 1 is based on 2Likutey Moharan 82.
00:00 – DEDICATIONS and NOTE about the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shneur Zalman b”R’ Boruch ז”ל of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya.
01:24 – PARAGRAPH 4b. Spiritual meaning of natural wellsprings.
*04:00 – TOLDOS: RaMBaN on Yitzchak Avinu restoring and renaming the wellsprings of Avraham Avinu.
07:00 – NOTE from the Arizal about the RaMbaN.
11:38 – Mayim Chaim.
13:00 – RaMBaN on the Third Beis HaMikdash (Bereishis 26, Toldos).
15:30 – Immersion in the water of Mikveh purifies.
16:30 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 56 – Mikveh of the 50th Level. Uniting the aspect of C’Seder with Lo C’Seder. This corresponds to the union of Hashem with Knesses Yisrael.
19:00 – Immersion in waters of Mikveh connects a person with the waters of creation.
20:00 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 56. (Yirmiyah 14:8).
*20:30 – Mikveh has two meanings: “hope” and “gathering of water”. Mikveh is the hope of a Jew – the first thing to do in a crisis is immersion in the mikveh. “Di Ershte zach iz Mikveh.”
22:00 – When the letters of Hashem’s Name Y – K – V – H are in proper order – this is an aspect of c’seder.
23:00 – Q&R about Mikveh as both Chochma and Binah.
25:13 – Q&R about how a woman can access the purifying aspect of Mikveh. Connecting to the Tzaddik – 16 x 60 – Yosef 960
26:20 – NOTE from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל – saying Tikkun HaKlali is like immersing in waters of Mikveh.
27:00 – Q&R about Mikveh connecting a person with the waters of Creation.
28:12 – Q&R about 960 can purify a Beriya – complete being (Talmud Yerushalmi).
29:35 – Reference to Likutey Moharan 52 about the process of purifying Midos. Bitul during Shemoneh Esrei – not to glance away from page of Siddur during this Tefilah. Mikveh is an aspect of Bitul – nullification of physical self.
*32:00 – Beshalach – Nachshon ben Aminadav. Holding one’s breath when under the waters of Mikveh. (Tehillim – Hoshiyana…ad nefesh).
33:00 – Appreciation to students.
35:00 – Mikveh is as aspect of Hashem (Yuma 85).
37:22 – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE about Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l’s study of Likutey Halakhos.
38:17 – Closing blessings for Siyum of Likutey Halakhos, Yoreh Deah 1.
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